Show j Seasonal d' d daily dUy Uy advice nd and I I YOUR YO UR on preparation of soil soli planning plan- plan I nine ning planting and flower culture by byone I one of the foremost floriculturists In I II II I Salt Lake L' City Questions addressed I Ito to this column will be bo answered I I GARDEN GA promptly when accompanied by byname I i name and address both of which t nil vill bo be omitted upon request TULIPS FOR BEAUTY Your spring garden is like a gray dress Your fall planted flower pigments pig ments are the color accents bring vividness and charm to that gray dress during the spring days Bunching of colors is preferable putting the massed accents at points where there will bo be no accents in later blooming periods getting a a. different effect than will wUl be obtained later on and being a spring personality in the garden Twenty or thirty bulbs m massed ed where they will give a great splash another of equal size at al another another an other point a third daub of or color slapped Into another angle of the garden gar gas den den and and you have a a. far more powerful powerful powerful power power- ful color accent than you have If it you distribute little dabs of individual tulips crocus daffodils and hyacinths hya at fairly regular Intervals allover all allover allover over the garden scheme I One could go Into quite a a. discussion of where you might put Iris what should be planted near It what should not which tulips arc are best why they are and where they might be bel used It might help you jOU But far farl more helpful is to point out the color I variations w we possess in what can be planted now so that you will have a a. vivid color garden early next spring It is wise to plant several dozen vivid tulips for instance nce to get a reaU really effective color mass where it will make great effect while shrub leaves are un undeveloped Use your own Ingenuity In ingenuity and inventiveness in getting original spring effects Speaking of tulips one immediately thinks of the many hu hundred dred varieties all beautiful all aU having different col eel ors Tulips are divided under some well known varieties such as Darwin breeders cottage and such In AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica lea the are now widely ap predated The colors include the brilliant and crimsons and the more somber tones of red The shades of rose and pink of violet and purple are unsurpassed for their delicacy delicacy del and richness of color There are arc slate blue and blue violets which might almost be called blue while Dumas Dumas' black k tulip is very nearly realized in some of the dark maroon varieties There are arc no yellows AUthe All AU the bronze and buff tones are breeders breed breeders ers while the yellow and orange scar let must be sought among cottage tulips To be continued |